Insect-screen.



No. 658,044. Patented Sept. l8, I900.

G. SATTLER.

INSECT SCREEN.

(Application filed May 21, 1900.)

(No Model.)

UNITED, STATES 5 PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE SA'ITLER, OF sHEBoYcAN, WISCONSIN.

INSECT-ZSJCREEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 658,044, dated September 18, 190 0.

' I application filed May 21 1900. serial No. 17,341. tNo model.)

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Beit known that I, GEORGE SATTLER, acitizen of the United States, anda resident of Shehoygan, in the county of Sheboygan and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and Useful Improvements in Insect/Screens; and

I do herehydeclare that the following is a full,

clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention has especial reference to that.

class of screens which have openings or passages therein to enable flies or other insectsscreen and with the upper portion of the screen partly broken away. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, A B represent the top and bottom parts, and O D the sides, of a rectangular frame of any suitable construction, made, preferably,of wood, the said frame members being preferably made double to receive between the meeting surfaces of each double part the adjacent edges of the upper and lower screensections E F, preferably formed of pieces of ordinary screen material commonly known as wire-netting or wiregauze. In the form of frame shown the innor meeting edges of the double parts of the frame are shown rab'beted or recessed a piece F extends up fromthe bottom to withina short distance of the top of the screenframe, while the upper screenpiece E extends down from the top to a plane belowthe top line of the said screen-piece F, the side edges:

rof both, screen-pieces being received in the described inner longitudinal grooves or sawgkerfs of the side pieces 0 D, (or otherwise tightly held between the opposing faces of,

the two parts of the said side pieces 0 D if the same are double, as shown,) as best shown of each upper double angular portion a hole I is formed through the said continuous top wall of the said strip G. In the drawings, I

have shown only one of thesezigzag strips G; but it will be understood that two or more may be employed between the top plane of'the screen-piece-F and the bottom plane of the screen-piece E, if desired in any instance, and while the described nail H. has been found in practice to afford an excellent'means of securing the strip or strips G in place between the opposed screenpieces I do not limit myself thereto, as other means may be employedsuch, for example, as the fine wires.

shown at J Jand ordinarily the strips G will be held firmly in place by simply'being crowded between the opposing screen-pieced; I

though usuallyI prefer to employ some securing means, as hereinabove described.

The operation of my device will be readily understood from the foregoing description of its construction, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings. The flies; or other insects which alight upon the inside of the screen find their way through the space between the two screen-pieces and presently between the double walls of the Zigzag strip i G and out through the holes in the apexes thereof, and thus find themselves on the outer surface of the screen, the small size of these openings 1 'I affording no encouragement to the insects to attempt to reenter, and even if they succeed if there are two or more rows of these strips G employed the insects find themselves in a trap between zag strip will befound sufficient for'alfl p'ractical purposes. i

While I have t hus illustrated and described the preferred construction of my device, it will be understood that I do not limit-myself to precise details of construction, as the same may be varied within the scope of my claims without departing from my invention.

Having thus described my-iuvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An insect-screen, comprising-asuitable frame having separate pieces ofscreen mate-f rial secured across the upper and lower parts thereof from side to side, and having the lower end of the upper piece, and the upper end of the lower piece ofiset from the vertical plane of the balance of each piece, f and extending past each other without 'coirj tact with the opposed horizontal 'inembers off said frame, in combination Witha doubled strip having openings in the upper wall thet'eof, interposed between said screen-pieces inf termediate of the side pieces ofthe fratne.

2. An insect-screen, comprising a suitable frame having separate overlapping "pieces of. screen material secured across the upper and t lower parts thereof, from side to side, one of the said pieces terminating above the plane of the bottom of the frame, and the other of said pieces terminating below the top thereof, in combination with an intertposed continuous open bottom doubled strip of like material having openings through the upper wall thereof.

3. :An insect-screen, comprising a suitable frame having separate overlapping pieces of screen material secured across the upper and i loweriparts thereoffrom side :to side, and respectively falling short of meeting the lower and upper frame members, in combination with a doubled zigzag strip of like material secured between aud'separating said screenpieces, the said-strip havingan open bottom and a continuous top and "the latter being provided with openings at "tihe'a-pexes of its do able-angled portions.

In testimony that claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Sheboygau, in the county of Sheboygan'aml State of co'iisin, in the presence of two witnesses.

V GEORGE SAT'ILER.

Witnesses:

FRED. SINZ, CLARA ALDAG. 

